How hypertext reading sequences affect understanding of causal and temporal relations in story comprehension |
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Authors: | Jacqueline Urakami Josef F Krems |
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Institution: | (1) Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan;(2) Cognitive and Engineering Psychology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany;(3) 3-10-43 Kikunodai, Chofu-shi Tokyo, 182-0007, Japan |
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Abstract: | The goal of this study is to examine the comprehension of global causal and temporal relations between events that are represented
in single hypertext documents. In two experiments we examined how reading sequences of hypertext nodes affects the establishment
of event relations and how this process can be supported by advanced organizers that provide either temporal or causal pre-information.
In the first experiment we could show that discourse structure affected recall of temporal event sequences only when causal
relations were absent. In a second experiment, the comprehension of either temporal or causal relations was facilitated by
providing different types of pre-information (advanced organizer). Temporal pre-information facilitated recall of temporal
event sequences without underlying causal relations. In contrast, causal pre-information facilitated recall of temporal event
sequences with causal relations. The results demonstrate that readers use causal information to construct temporal event sequences. |
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